Online resources
The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints at the University of Oregon
Online lectures on women printmakers
Dr. Jeannie Kenmotsu, “Joryū Hanga Kyōkai, 1956–1965: Japan’s Women Printmakers,” lecture, Japanese Art Society of America (online), Nov. 19, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXaHNFejzzA.
Dr. Jeannie Kenmotsu, “Joryū Hanga Kyōkai, 1956–1965: Japan’s Women Printmakers,” lecture, Japan Foundation of New York (online), August 5, 2021, https://ny.jpf.go.jp/event/japans-women-printmakers-joryu-hanga-kyokai-1956-1965/.
Yoshida Ayomi, “Chizuko Yoshida and Her Peers: Women Printmakers in Japan,” lecture, Portland Art Museum, April 7, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_7LaVRP_j4.
Printmaking techniques
Azechi Umetarō. Japanese Woodblock Prints: Their Techniques and Appreciation. Translated by Charles A. Pomeroy. Tokyo: Toto Shuppan Company, 1963.
Petit, Gaston, and Amadio Antonio Arboleda. Evolving Techniques in Japanese Woodblock Prints. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1977.
Yoshida Tōshi, and Rei Yuki. Japanese Print-Making: A Handbook of Traditional & Modern Techniques. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1966.
Twentieth-century Japanese prints
Ajioka, Chiaki, Kuwahara Noriko, Nishiyama Junko, and Art Gallery of New South Wales. Hanga: Japanese Creative Prints. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000.
Allen, Laura. “The Most Superior Association of Engravers: Sosaku Hanga Artists and the Rebuilding of Post-War Japan.” Orientations 42, no. 7 (2011): 78–83.
Blakemore, Frances. Who’s Who in Modern Japanese Prints. First ed. New York: Weatherhill, 1975.
Brown, Kendall H. “Out of the Dark Valley: Japanese Woodblock Prints and War, 1937–1945.” Impressions 23, no. 23 (2001): 64–85.
Fujikake, Shizuya. Japanese Wood-Block Prints. 7th ed. Tourist Library, Vol. 10. Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1962.
Herwig, Henk, and Nihon no Hanga (Amsterdam, Netherlands). The Male Image: 20th Century Japanese Portraiture. Amsterdam: Nihon no hanga, 2011. Exhibition Catalogue, No. 6, Autumn 2011.
Jenkins, Donald, Gordon Gilkey, Louise Klemperer, Portland Art Museum (OR), and St. Louis Art Museum. Images of a Changing World: Japanese Prints of the Twentieth Century. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1983.
Keyes, Roger S., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Break with the Past: The Japanese Creative Print Movement, 1910–1960. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1988.
Kuwahara Noriko. “Hirai Hiroshi to Hangasō ni tsuite: Sōsaku hanga senmon garō no tanjō to 1930 nendai no hanga” [Hirai Hiroshi and Hangasō Gallery: Founding of a gallery for sōsaku hanga and the woodcut print in the 1930s], Geijutsugaku kenkyū no. 2 (1998): 9–18.
Kuwahara Noriko. Nihon kindai hanga no kaigai shōkai to sono kokusaiteki hyōka ni kansuru kenkyū: Shōwa shoki kara senryōki made [Research on the introduction of modern Japanese prints overseas and their international reception: From the early Shōwa Period to the Occupation Period]. Chiba Prefecture: Seitoku Daigaku Jinbungakubu, 2008.
Kuwahara, Noriko. “Onchi’s ‘Portrait of Hagiwara Sakutarō’: Emblem of the Creative Print Movement for American Collectors.” Impressions 29, no. 29 (2007): 120–39.
Merritt, Helen. Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Early Years. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1990.
Merritt, Helen, and Nanako Yamada. Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900–1975. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press Honolulu, 1992.
Michener, James A. The Modern Japanese Print, an Appreciation: With Ten Original Prints by Hiratsuka Un’ichi, Maekawa Sempan, Mori Yoshitoshi, Watanabe Sadao, Kinoshita Tomio, Shima Tamami, Azechi Umetaro, Iwami Reika, Yoshida Masaji [and] Maki Haku. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1962.
Michener, James A., Richard Lane, and Honolulu Academy of Arts. Japanese Prints: From the Early Masters to the Modern. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959.
Newland, Amy Reigle, and Chris Uhlenbeck. Ukiyo-E to Shin Hanga: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints. New York: Mallard Press, 1990.
Newland, Amy Reigle, Julie Nelson Davis, Hotei Publishing publishers, and KIT Publishers. The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005.
Petit, Gaston, Kubo Sadajiro, and Stanley William Hayter. 44 Modern Japanese Print Artists. First ed. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1973.
Putney, Carolyn M., Kendall H. Brown, Shūko Koyama, Paul Binnie, Brian P. Kennedy, and Toledo Museum of Art. Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints. Toledo, OH: Toledo Museum of Art, 2013.
Rikkā Bijutsukan. Ichimokukai ten: Onchi Kōshirō to sono shūhen [Exhibition of Prints by Ichimokukai: Onchi Kōshirō and his Circle]. Tokyo: Hiraki Ukiyoe Zaidan, 1979.
Smith, Lawrence. Contemporary Japanese Prints: Symbols of a Society in Transition. First US ed. Icon Editions. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
———. “Japanese Prints 1868–2008.” In Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000, edited by J. Thomas Rimer, 362–407. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2012.
———. Japanese Prints During the Allied Occupation, 1945–1952. London: British Museum Press, 1996.
———. The Japanese Print Since 1900: Old Dreams and New Visions. First US ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
Smith, Lawrence, and British Museum. Modern Japanese Prints 1912–1989: Woodblocks and Stencils. New York: Cross River Press, 1994.
Statler, Oliver. Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn. 1st ed. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1959.
Uhlenbeck, Chris, Amy Reigle Newland, Maureen de Vries, and Fondation Baur, musée des arts d’Extrême Orient. Waves of Renewal: Modern Japanese Prints, 1900 to 1960: Selections from the Nihon No Hanga Collection, Amsterdam. Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2016.
Volk, Alicia. “Yorozu Tetsugorō and Taishō-Period Creative Prints: When the Japanese Print Became Avant-Garde.” Impressions 26 (2004): 44–65. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42597828.
Volk, Alicia, Helen Nagata, and Milwaukee Art Museum. Made in Japan: The Postwar Creative Print Movement. First ed. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2005.
Wessels, Elise, and Nihon no Hanga (Amsterdam, Netherlands). Urban Landscapes and Leisure: Prints of Modern Tokyo 1910–1940. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Nihon no hanga, 2009.
Winther-Tamaki, Bert. “The Ligneous Aesthetic of the Postwar Sōsaku Hanga Movement and American Perspectives on the Modern Japanese Culture of Wood.” Archives of Asian Art 66, no. 2 (2016): 213–38. https://doi.org/10.1353/aaa.2016.0017.
Individual artists
Iwami Reika
Merritt, Helen, Nanako Yamada, and University of Hawai’i (System). Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900–1975. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press Honolulu, 1992.
Michener, James A. The Modern Japanese Print, an Appreciation: With Ten Original Prints by Hiratsuka Un’ichi, Maekawa Sempan, Mori Yoshitoshi, Watanabe Sadao, Kinoshita Tomio, Shima Tamami, Azechi Umetaro, Iwami Reika, Yoshida Masaji [and] Maki Haku. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1962.
Milne Henderson. Shinoda-Iwami: Two Masters of the Japanese Print. London: Milne Henderson, 1979.
Smith, Lawrence. Contemporary Japanese Prints: Symbols of a Society in Transition. First US ed. Icon Editions. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
———. The Japanese Print Since 1900: Old Dreams and New Visions. First US ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
Smith, Lawrence, and British Museum. Modern Japanese Prints 1912–1989: Woodblocks and Stencils. New York: Cross River Press, 1994.
Tolman, Mary, and Norman Tolman. People Who Make Japanese Prints: A Personal Glimpse. Tokyo: Sobunsha, 1982.
Von Groschwitz, Gustave, and Cincinnati Art Museum. International Prints 1962: Cincinnati Art Museum, April 5 through May 13. [Cincinnati]: [Cincinnati Art Museum], 1962. Exhibition catalogue.
Yoshida Tōshi, and Rei Yuki. Japanese Print-Making: A Handbook of Traditional & Modern Techniques. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1966.
Kawakami Sumio
Farhad, Massumeh, Sana Mirza, eds. Global Lives of Objects: Celebrating 100 Years of the National Museum of Asian Art. Washington, DC: National Museum of Asian Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; Lewes: in association with D. Giles Limited.
Haas, Robert, and Tomi Haas. “Reveries and Images of Sumio Kawakami.” In Newsletter on Contemporary Japanese Prints. Los Angeles: Juda Collection, 1972.
Jenkins, Donald, Gordon Gilkey, Louise Klemperer, Portland Art Museum (Or.), and St. Louis Art Museum. Images of a Changing World: Japanese Prints of the Twentieth Century. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1983.
Kawakami Sumio mokuhanga no sekai: kokon tōzai o asobu: Tochigi Kenritsu Bijutsukan shozōhin ni yoru [The world of wood-block prints by Sumio Kawakami from the collection of Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts]. Tokyo and Utsunomiya: Setagaya Bijutsukan, Tochigikenritsu Bijutsukan, 2010.
Kawakami Sumio, Shi to e no sekai [Kawakami Sumio, World of poetry and prints]. Kanuma Municipal Art Museum of Kawakami Sumio, 1995.
Kawakami Sumio: tanoshiki nosutarujia : Kanuma Shiritsu Kawakami Sumio Bijutsukanzō [Kawakami Sumio: Fun nostalgia: Collection of the Kanuma City Kawakami Sumio Art Museum]. Musashino City, Tokyo: Musashino City Kichijoji Museum of Art, 2014.
Kawakami Sumio ten: bunmei kaika o egaita hangaka [Kawakami Sumio exhibition: Printmaker who depicted civilization and enlightenment]. Yokohama: Kanagawa Shinbunsha, 2009.
Kawakami Sumio zenshû [Collection of Kawakami Sumio]. Tokyo: Chûô Kôronsha, 1979, vol. 2.
Merritt, Helen. Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Early Years. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1990.
Merritt, Helen, and Yamada, Nanako. Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900–1975. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1992.
Onchi, Kôshirô. Nihon no gendai hanga [Contemporary Japanese prints]. Tokyo: Sôgensha, 1953.
Read, Louisa. “Kawakami, a Modern Print-Maker.” Apollo 101 (March 1975): 242–243.
Smith, Lawrence. The Japanese Print Since 1900: Old Dreams and New Visions. London: British Museum, 1983.
Statler, Oliver. Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn. First ed. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1956.
Uhlenbeck, Chris, Amy Reigle Newland, Maureen de Vries, and Fondation Baur, musée des arts d’Extrême Orient. Waves of Renewal: Modern Japanese Prints, 1900 to 1960: Selections from the Nihon No Hanga Collection, Amsterdam. Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2016.
Oda Mayumi
Oda, Mayumi. Goddesses. Expanded ed. Volcano, CA: Volcano Press/Kazan Books, 1988.
Oda, Mayumi. I Opened the Gate, Laughing: An Inner Journey. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2002.
Oda, Mayumi, and Robert A. F. Thurman. Sarasvati’s Gift: The Autobiography of Mayumi Oda – Artist, Activist, and Modern Buddhist Revolutionary. First ed. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2020.
Oda, Mayumi, and San Francisco Zen Center. Divine Gardens: Mayumi Oda and the San Francisco Zen Center. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2017.
Onchi Kōshirō
Ajioka, Chiaki, Kuwahara Noriko, Nishiyama Junko, and Art Gallery of New South Wales. Hanga: Japanese Creative Prints. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2000.
Allen, Laura. “The Most Superior Association of Engravers: Sosaku Hanga Artists and the Rebuilding of Post-War Japan.” Orientations 42, no. 7 (2011): 78–83.
Brown, Kendall H. “Out of the Dark Valley: Japanese Woodblock Prints and War, 1937–1945.” Impressions 23, no. 23 (2001): 64–85.
Keyes, Roger S, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Break with the Past: The Japanese Creative Print Movement, 1910-1960. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1988.
Kuwahara, Noriko. Onchi Kōshirō kenkyū: hanga no modanizumu [A study of Onchi Kōshirō: modernity in Japanese prints]. Tōkyō: Serika Shobō, 2012.
Kuwahara Noriko. “Onchi’s ‘Portrait of Hagiwara Sakutarō’: Emblem of the Creative Print Movement for American Collectors.” Impressions 29, no. 29 (2007): 120–39.
Merritt, Helen. Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Early Years. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1990.
Merritt, Helen, and Nanako Yamada. Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900–1975. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press Honolulu, 1992.
Naoi, Nozomi. Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020.
Onchi Kōshirō. “The Modern Japanese Print: An International History of the Sōsaku-Hanga Movement.” Ukiyo-E Art 11 (1965): 3–24.
Onchi Kōshirō. “Mokuhanga ni tsuite.” Reprinted in Kindai Nihon no hanga [Modern Japanese Printmaking], edited by Ono Tadashige, 151–52. Tokyo: Sansaisha, 1971.
Onchi Kōshirō, Tohru Matsumoto, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, and Wakayama-Kenritsu-Kindai-Bijutsukan. Onchi Kos̄hirō Ten: (Tokyo), January 13–February 28, 2016, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, (Wakayama), April 29–June 12, 2016, the Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama (Onchi Kōshirō Exhibition). Tokyo, Wakayama: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan Wakayama-Kenritsu-Kindai-Bijutsukan, 2016.
Rikkā Bijutsukan. Ichimokukai ten: Onchi Kōshirō to sono shūhen [Exhibition of prints by Ichimokukai: Onchi Kōshirō and his circle]. Tokyo: Hiraki Ukiyoe Zaidan, 1979. Exhibition catalogue.
Smith, Lawrence. Contemporary Japanese Prints: Symbols of a Society in Transition. First US ed. Icon Editions. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
Smith, Lawrence. “Japanese Prints 1868–2008.” In Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000, edited by J. Thomas Rimer, 362–407. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2012.
Smith, Lawrence. Japanese Prints during the Allied Occupation, 1945–1952. London: British Museum Press, 1996.
Smith, Lawrence. The Japanese Print Since 1900: Old Dreams and New Visions. First US ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
Smith, Lawrence, and British Museum. Modern Japanese Prints 1912–1989: Woodblocks and Stencils. New York: Cross River Press, 1994.
Statler, Oliver. Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn. First ed. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1959.
Swinton, Elizabeth de Sabato. The Graphic Art of Onchi Koshiro: Innovation and Tradition. New York: Garland Pub., 1986.
Uhlenbeck, Chris, Amy Reigle Newland, Maureen de Vries, and Fondation Baur, musée des arts d’Extrême Orient. Waves of Renewal: Modern Japanese Prints, 1900 to 1960: Selections from the Nihon No Hanga Collection, Amsterdam. Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2016.
Yokohama Museum, ed. Onchi Kõshirõ: Iro to katachi no shijin [Onchi Kõshirõ: A poet of colors and forms]. Tokyo: Yomiuri shinbunsha, 1994.
Saitō Kiyoshi
Allen, Laura. “The Most Superior Association of Engravers: Sosaku Hanga Artists and the Rebuilding of Post-War Japan.” Orientations 42, no. 7 (2011): 78–83.
Kuwahara, Noriko, Rhiannon Paget, Paul Binnie, Judith A. Stubbs, Kiyoshi Saitō, and John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Saitō Kiyoshi: Graphic Awakening. New York, NY, Sarasota, FL: Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.; in association with The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 2021.
Merritt, Helen. Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Early Years. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1990.
Merritt, Helen, and Nanako Yamada. Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900–1975. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press Honolulu, 1992.
Petit, Gaston, Kubo Sadajiro, and Stanley William Hayter. 44 Modern Japanese Print Artists. First ed. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1973.
Saitō Kiyoshi, Aizu no fuyu [Winter in Aizu, Saitō Kiyoshi]. Fukushima: Fukushima Kenritsu Bijutsukan, 1992.
Saitō Kiyoshi gagyō [The Works of Saitō Kiyoshi]. Tokyo: Abe shuppan, 1990.
Saitō Kiyoshi hanga sakuhinshū [Saitō Kiyoshi’s Prints]. Tokyo: Abe shuppan, 2015.
Smith, Lawrence. Contemporary Japanese Prints: Symbols of a Society in Transition. First US ed. Icon Editions. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
Smith, Lawrence. “Japanese Prints 1868–2008.” In Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000, edited by J. Thomas Rimer, 362–407. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2012.
Smith, Lawrence. Japanese Prints during the Allied Occupation, 1945–1952. London: British Museum Press, 1996.
Smith, Lawrence. The Japanese Print Since 1900: Old Dreams and New Visions. First US ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
Smith, Lawrence, and British Museum. Modern Japanese Prints 1912–1989: Woodblocks and Stencils. New York: Cross River Press, 1994.
Statler, Oliver. Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn. First ed. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1956.
Till, Barry. Masterful Images: The Art of Kiyoshi Saito. Portland, Oregon: Pomegranate Communications, 2013.
Yoshida Tōshi, and Rei Yuki. Japanese Print-Making: A Handbook of Traditional & Modern Techniques. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1966.
Sekino Jun’ichirō
Allen, Laura. “The Most Superior Association of Engravers: Sosaku Hanga Artists and the Rebuilding of Post-War Japan.” Orientations 42, no. 7 (2011): 78–83.
Aomori kenritsu bijutsukan. Sekino Jun’ichirō ten: Shōwa no hangashi seitan hyakunen [Sekino Jun’ichirō Exhibition: 100th anniversary of the birth of the Shōwa printmaker]. n.p.: Sekino Jun’ichirō jikkō iinkai, 2014.
Jun-Ichiro Sekino the Prints: Sekino Jun’ichirō. Hanga Sakuhin Shu. Tokyo: Abe Shuppan, 1994.
Keyes, Roger S, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Break with the Past: The Japanese Creative Print Movement, 1910–1960. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1988.
Merritt, Helen. Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Early Years. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1990.
Merritt, Helen, and Nanako Yamada. Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900–1975. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press Honolulu, 1992.
Ningen o horu : Sekino hanga gojūnen no shūtaisei [Carving the human figure: The culmination of 50 years of Sekino prints]. Tokyo: Bunka shuppan kyoku, 1981.
Petit, Gaston, Kubo Sadajiro, and Stanley William Hayter. 44 Modern Japanese Print Artists. First ed. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1973.
Sekino Jun’ichirō, and Floating World Gallery (Chicago, IL). Behind Paper Walls: Early Works and Portraits by Jun’ichiro Sekino. First ed. Chicago, IL: Floating World Gallery, 2010.
Smith, Lawrence. Contemporary Japanese Prints: Symbols of a Society in Transition. First US ed. Icon Editions. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
Smith, Lawrence. The Japanese Print Since 1900: Old Dreams and New Visions. First US ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
Smith, Lawrence. Japanese Prints During the Allied Occupation, 1945–1952. London: British Museum Press, 1996.
Smith, Lawrence, and British Museum. Modern Japanese Prints 1912–1989: Woodblocks and Stencils. New York: Cross River Press, 1994.
Statler, Oliver. Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn. First ed. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1956.
Shinagawa Takumi
Media to hyōgen: Shinagawa Takumi, Yamaguchi Katsuhiro [Media and expression: Shinagawa Takumi, Yamaguchi Katsuhiro]. Tokyo: Nerima kuritsu bijutsukan, 1996.
Shinagawa, Takumi, and Yoshio Takemi. Charm in Motion: A Collection of Mobiles. London: Pitman, 1971.
Smith, Lawrence, and British Museum. Modern Japanese Prints 1912–1989: Woodblocks and Stencils. New York: Cross River Press, 1994.
Statler, Oliver. Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn. First ed. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1956.
Yoshida Tōshi, and Rei Yuki. Japanese Print-Making: A Handbook of Traditional & Modern Techniques. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1966.
Yamaguchi Gen
Keyes, Roger S., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Break with the Past: The Japanese Creative Print Movement, 1910–1960. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1988.
Merritt, Helen. Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Early Years. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1990.
Merritt, Helen, and Nanako Yamada. Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900–1975. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press Honolulu, 1992.
Petit, Gaston, Kubo Sadajiro, and Stanley William Hayter. 44 Modern Japanese Print Artists. First ed. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1973.
Smith, Lawrence. Contemporary Japanese Prints: Symbols of a Society in Transition. First US ed. Icon Editions. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
Smith, Lawrence. The Japanese Print Since 1900: Old Dreams and New Visions. First US ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
Smith, Lawrence. Japanese Prints During the Allied Occupation, 1945–1952. London: British Museum Press, 1996.
Smith, Lawrence, and British Museum. Modern Japanese Prints 1912–1989: Woodblocks and Stencils. New York: Cross River Press, 1994.
Statler, Oliver. Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn. First ed. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1956.
Yamaguchi Gen: Fuji ni umare Numazu ni bosshita chūshō mokuhanga no kaitakusha : seitan 100-nen kaikoten [Gen Yamaguchi: A pioneer of abstract woodcut in Shizuoka: The 100th anniversary exhibition of his birth]. Shizukoka: Shizukoka kenritsu bijutsukan, 1998. Exhibition catalogue.
Yoshida Tōshi, and Rei Yuki. Japanese Print-Making: A Handbook of Traditional & Modern Techniques. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1966.
Yoshida Chizuko
Allen, Laura W., Kendall H. Brown, Eugene M. Skibbe, Matthew Welch, Yasunaga Koichi, and Minneapolis Institute of Arts. A Japanese Legacy: Four Generations of Yoshida Family Artists. Minneapolis, MN: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2002.
Petit, Gaston, Kubo Sadajiro, and Stanley William Hayter. 44 Modern Japanese Print Artists. First ed. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1973.
Statler, Oliver, and James A. Michener. Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1956.
Tomita Tomoko, ed., The Yoshida Family ten: sekai wo meguru Yoshida-ke yondai no gaka tachi [The Yoshida family exhibition: Four generations of Yoshida family artists around the world). Mitaka: Mitakashi Geijutsu Bunka Shinkō Zaidan, 2009.
Yoshida Chizuko. “Yukizuri no hitotachi” [People passing by]. Zōkei 39 (June 1958): 48.
Artist quotes appear in the following publications:
Saitō Kiyoshi
Quoted in Saitō Kiyoshi, “Tashokuban no tokushu gihō,” in Hanga dokuhon, ed. Zōkei Hanga Kyōkai (Tokyo: Sōrinsha, 1942), 32–35. As quoted and translated in Noriko Kuwahara, “The Art of Saitō Kiyoshi: Internationalism and Regionalism,” in Saitō Kiyoshi: Graphic Awakening (New York, NY: Scala Arts Publishers, Inc, 2021), 3.
Sekino Jun’ichirō
Quoted in Sekino Jun’ichirō, “Maegaki,” in Oku no hosomichi hanga satsu (Tokyo: Bunka Shuppankyoku, 1985), 6. (Translated by Kit Brooks)
Kawakami Sumio
“With reference to my so-called exoticism…”
Quoted in Helen Merritt, Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1990), 227.
“I was never much in the swim of things…”
Quoted in Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn, third ed. (Rutland, VT; Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., 1959), 93.
Yoshida Chizuko
Yoshida Chizuko, diary, as quoted by Yoshida Ayomi, “Chizuko Yoshida and Her Peers: Women Printmakers in Japan,” (lecture, Portland Art Museum, April 4, 2015).
https://youtu.be/y_7LaVRP_j4?si=EWMj6kGZYUj3DsUa
Shinagawa Takumi
“When I was beginning to make woodprints…”
Quoted in Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., 1956), 72.
“Japanese art can’t stay aloof…”
Quoted in Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn, third ed. (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., 1959), 73.
Yamaguchi Gen
“Art activity during the war…”
Quoted in Yamaguchi Gen, “Hanga to watashi,” Hanga geijutsu 59 (1988): 93. (translated by Lillian Wies)
“Onchi and I began…”
Quoted in Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn, third ed. (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., 1959), 154.
Iwami Reika
Quoted in Mary Tolman and Norman Tolman, People Who Make Japanese Prints: A Personal Glimpse (Tokyo: Sobunsha, 1982), 33.
Mayumi Oda
“I was 36 years old…”
Mayumi Oda, “Treasure Ship.” Mayumi Oda (website). Updated 2024. https://mayumioda.net/collections/treasure-ship-series.
“While preparing some of my silk screens…”
Quoted in Mayumi Oda, Sarasvati’s Gift: The Autobiography of Mayumi Oda- Artist, Activist, and Modern Buddhist Revolutionary (Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 2020), 44–45.
Onchi Kōshirō
Translation of Japanese text in Cherry Blossom Time appears in Laura Allen, “The Most Superior Association of Engravers: Sosaku Hanga Artists and the Rebuilding of Post-War Japan.” Orientations 42, no. 7 (2011): 82.
“Abstract art is now…”
Quoted in Oliver Statler, Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn, third ed. (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., 1959), 24–25.
